Role and function of education social structure
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social function of education under five headings.
1. The transmission of the culture of the society, here the need is basically the conservative way of passing on the main pattern of society through schools.
2. The provision of innovations,
someone must initiate the social change that is necessary for a society to survive under modern conditions such change may be, for example, technical, political or artistic.
3. The political function
, this may be looked at in two ways. There is first, the need to provide political leaders at all levels of democratic society and second, there is the demand that education should help to preserve the present system of government by ensuring loyalty to it.
4. The function of social selection,
the educational system is central to the process by which the more able are sorted out of the population as a whole.
5. The economic function
, here the need is that all levels or the labour force should be provided with the quantity and quality of educated manpower required under the current technical condition. There are many functions itemized above but only the economic and political aspects shall be elaborately addressed in this work because of the intimate link between them.
Economic Function of Education
It is pertinent to examine in some detail the way in which the educational system helps to maintain the economy. The
economic function of the educational system is to provide the labour force with the manpower that matches the need of the economy and to give future consumers the knowledge that we require.
1. The transmission of the culture of the society, here the need is basically the conservative way of passing on the main pattern of society through schools.
2. The provision of innovations,
someone must initiate the social change that is necessary for a society to survive under modern conditions such change may be, for example, technical, political or artistic.
3. The political function
, this may be looked at in two ways. There is first, the need to provide political leaders at all levels of democratic society and second, there is the demand that education should help to preserve the present system of government by ensuring loyalty to it.
4. The function of social selection,
the educational system is central to the process by which the more able are sorted out of the population as a whole.
5. The economic function
, here the need is that all levels or the labour force should be provided with the quantity and quality of educated manpower required under the current technical condition. There are many functions itemized above but only the economic and political aspects shall be elaborately addressed in this work because of the intimate link between them.
Economic Function of Education
It is pertinent to examine in some detail the way in which the educational system helps to maintain the economy. The
economic function of the educational system is to provide the labour force with the manpower that matches the need of the economy and to give future consumers the knowledge that we require.
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